Third Corneal Abrasion in 6 Months

Saturday while I was checking my email and enjoying my coffee, my eye allergies started acting up.  Goopy.  Wipe the gunk out.  Itchy.  Scratch the eye lash line.  Few more emails, bit more coffee, blink, blink, ouch.  :-(  Hmm.  The longer I sat up, the more I blinked, the more my eye hurt.  I got up, put some Erythromycin ointment in, put on a make-shift eye patch, and lied down for a bit.

By the time Lisa and Dave got home from working at the barn I was in PAIN!  My eye hurt.  I had a splitting headache.  My nose was running like a faucet.  I was blowing it so much I had a few nosebleeds.  I took my pain medicine at 10pm, and it still wasn't helping.

At midnight I let Dave take me to the emergency room.  I brought along my tissues and a brown paper KFC bag for my used tissue garbage.  They were pretty empty.  I sat right down, vitals taken, BP and heart rate up (as expected in severe pain), and walked straight back.  The nurse came in and asked the preliminary questions: 

-Do you have any health issues? Yes.
-Are you on any medications? Yes.
-Are you threatened or is anyone beating you at home? No.
- Have you considered suicide today or at any time in the past 12 months?  Hmm.  No.

The doctor knocked, came in, and said, "You came with your own eye patch.  I like it!  And you brought your own tissues.  You know I give those out for free, right?"  He introduced himself as "Ace."  He was a trip.

4 numby drops and a dye drop later and we checked our attire out with the black light to see what awesome glowing duds we had on.  All I had were glowing shoe laces.  His lab coat glowed.  

"You have an ulcer."

"Brilliant!"

"Right in the middle.  Looks like you gouged it with a finger nail."

"Well, that would explain why it hurts like crazy."

"I imagine it would."

He picked up my tissue box and drew a picture of an eye.  "The circle in the middle is not your pupil, it's the ulcer you have on your cornea."  Wow.  I done good this time.

"Is the stuff you take for your back sufficient for your eye?"  God, no!  It's not touching it!  "Want something stronger?"  YES PLEASE!

Some eye goop and Percocet later here I am.  My vision was a bit blurry yesterday, but it seems to be back to normal today.  I'll have to remember to call the ophthalmologist tomorrow to schedule a follow up.  I'm having no luck with this eye lately.